The Lucid: A Dream Portal to Awakening
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5 - 29 JANUARY

$200 - $400 + BF

The CTA Business Club Martin Pl, Sydney NSW 2000

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Eight conscious-altering hours of sound

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Bondi Wash
Kelsey Lu | USA
Journey into the sub-conscious from the comfort of a hotel bed, during an eight-hour sound work commissioned especially for the 28 hotel rooms that line the giant mushroom-shaped, Seidler-designed building in Sydney’s Martin Place. 

Created by multidisciplinary American artist Kelsey Lu, this durational experience invites audiences on a sonic trip that flows into a dream state and tests the triggers of lucid dreaming.

Cocooned in the curve of the mushroom, somewhere in the blur between waking and dreaming, you'll transcend your four walls for the most unusual eight hours of slumber imaginable. 

The Lucid: A Dream Portal to Awakening comes from the restlessly creative mind of Kelsey Lu, a classically trained cellist and polymuse from Charlotte, North Carolina who operates at the intersection of visual art, performance, healing activism and music, collaborating with artists as diverse as Sampha, Florence + The Machine, Skrillex and Solange.  

"My intention with this piece is to cushion the experience that exudes control of time and space, to link both harmony and dissonance between the present world and the frontiers of our consciousness all while playing with the joint idea that architecture speaks not of history but of time and the dreams that lie therein.” – Kelsey Lu

"Meditative, surreal and deeply imaginative... Lu seems intent to immerse us fully, deeply, intimately into her gossamer creative vision – and succeeds."

The Guardian

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TICKETING & PRICING

Friday - Saturday
Queen or Twin Room - $400
Single Room - $300

Sunday - Thursday
Queen or Twin Room - $300
Single Room - $200
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Overnight. Check in from 7.30pm with audio work commencing at 10.30pm. Check out is at 9am.


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Kelsey Lu
A polymath artist and classically trained cellist, Kelsey Lu’s avantpop contains as many dancefloor-ready moments as it does swelling strings, flourishes of birdsong and abstract electronics. In 2020 they turned their attention to creating 20-minute meditational sound baths for healing and relaxation with accompanying visuals intended for listening lying down or in a warm bath. Now they’re expanding on that concept to take you on an overnight sonic journey deep into a lucid dream state.

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Kelsey Lu
A polymath artist and classically trained cellist, Kelsey Lu’s avantpop contains as many dancefloor-ready moments as it does swelling strings, flourishes of birdsong and abstract electronics. In 2020 they turned their attention to creating 20-minute meditational sound baths for healing and relaxation with accompanying visuals intended for listening lying down or in a warm bath. Now they’re expanding on that concept to take you on an overnight sonic journey deep into a lucid dream state.

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